WoodC.A.R. - Computer Aided Research
Abstract
Current and future strategic challenges in the automotive industry (i.e. fuel reduction, CO2-balance, self-driving cars, electro-mobility, small city cars and special vehicles) require innovative vehicle concepts. Novel materials, material combinations and composites are urgently needed. Wood provides high stiffness, strength, excellent damping, high resistance against fatigue and a very low density paired with low material costs. Properly applied, modern wood composites are competitive to metals and fibre-reinforced materials. Wood is an abundant, carbon-neutral and renewable resource; raw material costs are low, and especially in Europe high quality wood material is available. Decades of experience in aeronautical, nautical and even in automotive engineering provide abundant proof of wood and wood composites being a reliable construction and engineering material. Wood can broaden the material portfolio in automotive engineering and can help improving the CO2-balance at lower weight and lower costs. However, the application of wood and wood composites in automotive engineering requires precise and reliable material data, e.g. for a very first material selection and later in numerical crash simulations. Last year, a feasibility study (650.000 EUR budget) was performed, proving that wood and wood products can be sufficiently well simulated by means of finite element methods under static and dynamic loads and in crash situations. Components of a few selected car components showed that wood can compete and outperform the baseline products (made of aluminum and fibre inforced plastics) in terms of structural properties, weight and costs. Still, a more thorough and comprehensive understanding of wood as load-bearing and energy absorbing (crash and vibration) material in vehicle-design is needed. WoodCAR (Wood - Computer Aided Research) will establish the knowledge and the requisites for integrating wood in virtual engineering and the vehicle design process in general. WoodCAR will establish the needed knowledge base on the mechanical properties, the grading, the processing, the integration and the recycling of numerous wood species and wood composites in vehicle design. WoodCAR will evaluate and improve existing and develop advanced material models for use in computer aided engineering (CAE). Sate-of-the-art production, joining and bonding technologies will be reviewed, analyzed, evaluated and integrated in the virtual engineering process. Application cases, not only from the automotive sector, will be selected. Based on meticulous specification sheets, the application cases will be developed by applying the initial virtual engineering process. In continuous feedback-loops, the process will be refined such that it is applicable in an industrial development process. Eventually, demonstrators will be built and tested, proofing the reliability of the virtual engineering process. Using the experience and expertise gained with the development of selected application cases, WoodCAR will conclude its work with an ample ecologic and economic assessment of wood as loadbearing material in dynamically loaded structures. Beside technological aspects, quality assessment and economic (bio-economy concepts, life-cycle analysis) will be considered.
Schlagworte Computer Aided Engineering Wood Composites Automotive Industry Light Weight Design Computer Simulation Finite Element Modelling
Publikationen
The road from creating a material model to a structural component of wood for automotive applications
Autoren: Müller, U.; Singer, G.; Kirschbichler, S.; Leitgeb, W.; Jost, T. Jahr: 2017
PUBLIZIERTER Beitrag für wissenschaftliche Veranstaltung
Holzverbundwerkstoffe im Automobilbau der Zukunft? – Crashtests und Simulation von Holzwerkstoffen vorausgesetzt!
Autoren: Müller, U.; Feist, F.; Jost, T. Jahr: 2018
PUBLIZIERTER Beitrag für wissenschaftliche Veranstaltung
Wood Composites for Future Automotive Engineering? – Basic Requirement: Crash Simulation of Wood-Based Components
Autoren: Jost, T; Müller, U; Feist, F Jahr: 2018
Originalbeitrag in Fachzeitschrift
Die Zukunft des Automobils ist holzig
Autoren: Martin Gruber-Dorninger Jahr: 2016
Populärwissenschaftlicher Beitrag
Holz, geprüft im virtuellen Crashtest
Autoren: Patricia Käfer Jahr: 2016
Populärwissenschaftlicher Beitrag
Technologie und Handwerk auf dem Holzweg
Autoren: Hannes Gaisch-Faustmann, Klaus Höfer, Manfred Neuper Jahr: 2017
Populärwissenschaftlicher Beitrag
Wie man Holz unter die Motorhaube bekommt
Autoren: Norbert Swoboda Jahr: 2018
Populärwissenschaftlicher Beitrag
Crashsichere Holzverbundwerkstoffe in Leichtbaukarosserien der Zukunft
Autoren: Baumann, G; Stadlmann, A; Kurzböck, C; Feist, F Jahr: 2019
Populärwissenschaftlicher Beitrag
Mitarbeiter*innen
Ulrich Müller
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ulrich Müller
ulrich.mueller@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89112
BOKU Project Leader
01.03.2017 - 30.04.2021
Wolfgang Gindl-Altmutter
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Wolfgang Gindl-Altmutter
wolfgang.gindl@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89111
Project Staff
01.03.2017 - 30.04.2021
Michael Grabner
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Michael Grabner
michael.grabner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89128
Project Staff
01.03.2017 - 30.04.2021
Peter Halbauer
Dipl.-Ing. Peter Halbauer B.Sc.
peter.halbauer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89151
Project Staff
03.04.2017 - 30.04.2021
Christian Huber
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Huber
christian.huber@students.boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.03.2017 - 30.04.2021
Herwig Mayer
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Herwig Mayer
herwig.mayer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89202
Project Staff
01.03.2017 - 30.04.2021
Tobias Josef Nenning
Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Josef Nenning
tobias.nenning@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89118
Project Staff
03.09.2018 - 30.09.2018
Maximilian Pramreiter
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Maximilian Pramreiter B.Sc.
maximilian.pramreiter@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89123
Project Staff
15.05.2017 - 28.02.2021
Stefan Veigel
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Stefan Veigel
stefan.veigel@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89124
Project Staff
01.03.2017 - 30.04.2021
BOKU Partner
Externe Partner
Wood Cluster Styria
keiner
partner
Doka Industrie GmbH
Dr. Raimund Mauritz
partner
Weitzer Holding GmbH
keiner
partner
LEAN Management Consulting GmbH
keiner
partner
DYNAmore GmbH
Thomas Münz
partner
EJOT AUSTRIA GmbH & Co KG
Gerhard Schmidt
partner
Magna Steyr Engineering GmbH & Co KG
Ing. Bruno Götzinger
partner
MAN Truck & Bus AG_x000D_
Dr. Norbert Elbs
partner
Mattro Mobility Revolutions GmbH
Alois Bauer
partner
Vehicle Safety Institute
Dr. Florian Feist
partner
VIRTUAL VEHICLE Research Center
DI(FH) Thomas Jost
partner
Weizer Energie- Innovations- Zentrum GmbH
Mag.(FH) Bernadette Karner
coordinator
DI Gottfried Steiner_x000D_ Ingenieurbüro für Kunststofftechnik
keiner
partner
University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Lanz
partner
Kooperationsplattform Forst Holz Papier
Mag. Hermine Hackl
partner
Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research, Karl-Franzens University of Graz (KFU-Graz),
keiner
partner
Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research, Karl-Franzens University of Graz (KFU-Graz)
Prof. Dr. Tobias Stern
partner